how can I highlight text on Mail when I am replying to someone?

Do you mean you want to send messages containing bold and italic text?

You can do this in mail by typing the message, then using the mouse to highlight words, etc that you want to be in bold (or italic), then selecting from the Format menu > Style > Bold (or Italic).

Bob

I haven't made any changes like that to my system and I can highlight any text other than addresses.

Just click on the text and drag across what you want to select.

Ooohhhh. Select the text then press command-shift-c and select the color.

According to this article it isn't really possible to do in Mail http://getsatisfaction.com/apple/topics/why_cant_i_highlight_my_messages_in_mac_ mail

did you ever find a solution to your problem? i am also looking for a solution

thx

Highlight the text you want to highlight in Word.

Select all of your text in Word, do a copy (command +c) go to Mail, do a paste (command+v).

Sorry for my english, I'm a french canadian.

Did you ever figure out a solution to this?

I have blogged a solution for this here: http://presscheck.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/how-to-highlight-text-in-yellow-using -apple-mail/

Thanks, BackOnMac. Perfect.

See my solution at

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3028649?answerId=20130656022#20130656022